Thomas edwin kent



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T. E. KENT. METHOD OF STRENGTHENING GARMENTS.

No. 326,749. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE...

THOMAS EDWIN KENT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

METHOD OF STRENGTHENING GARMENTS.

Application filrd November 15, 1884.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,749, dated September 22, 1885.

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To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS EDWIN KENT, of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

Garments which have a slit or opening like that made in the back of a mans shirt from the collar-band down, or in the sleeves from the Wristbands up, need a strengthening-piece at the fork of the opening to prevent the parts from easily tearing asunder.

My invention consists in a peculiar method of forming the stay or re-enforce piece, which is stitched about the fork of the opening or slit, and which is intended to resist the strains due to the ordinary wear and tear in a more thorough manner than heretofore, and of attaching the same to the garment.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view of the back part of a mans shirt, showing the opening, to the bottom or fork of which my strengthening-pieces are secured, the two sides or edges of the fabric overlapping in this view, so as to exhibit my strengthening-piece in its normal position. Fig. 2 is a view of the same parts with the edges stretched in a continuous line, so as to show the stay-piece crossing the fork of the opening. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the pieces B and C before they are stitched together. Fig. 5 is a view of the pieces B and C after they are stitched together, but before they are applied to the garment.

In all the figures the same letters of refer-' ence refer to the same parts.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A is a portion of a mans shirt, showing the back part from the neck down, with its slit or opening as found in what are called the openback shirts. ais the collar-band, and a is the neck-yoke. B is a little patch of cloth cut square with a slit cut The opposite from one corner to the center.

corner may be cut off, as shown at 1), Figs. 2, 8, and 5. C is a triangular piece, half of a square the size of the piece B. These two pieces B and C are sewed together on the line 0 c. The lower right-hand quarter of the piece Bis turned under, and will carry between the folded faces the overlapping edge of the slit marked D. The upper half of the piece B is now sewed to the underlapping edge of the slit, and the stitching around the edges of the pieces 13 and C is continued until the outer edges of the piece B are firmly secured to both edges of the opening or slit above the fork, and the outer edges of the piece C are bound to the back of the garment below the fork, thus forming a thorough stay-piece to prevent the garment parting with any ordinary strain.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The method of strengthening the fork of a slit in a garment, the same consisting in, first, providing a patch of cloth with a slit extending from the edge to the center thereof; second, folding one of the parts of the patch adjacent to and forming the side of the slit on a line perpendicular thereto; third, refolding the said folded part of the patchon a line parallel with the before-mentioned slit; fourth, sewing a straight-edged piece of cloth to the folded patch on the line a 0 parallel with the slit, and, fifth, securing the patch thus formed to the fork of a slit in a garment by sewing one of the sides forming the said fork to the folded portion of the patch and the remainder of the latter to the body of the garment, as set forth.

THOS. ED VVIh KENT.

Vv'itnesses:

LEWIS B. HARRIS, J. H. GRISWOLD. 

